Now it looks a bold prophecy of Isaiah's, that the "desert shall blossom like the rose" in this kind of life. Yet he prophesies it. Looking round in our times, it does not appear on the surface that the desert is blossoming spiritually. William Watson, our greatest recent poet, looking round on a secularized world, says ho would that we would "hail the mystic bird that brings News from the inner court of things The eternal courier-dove, whose wings Are never furled: And hear the bubbling of the springs That feed the world.'"'
Nothing finer than that has ever been written. How many of us are, as Professor Thomson says, "restless" to drink of these "springs that feed the world'? To drink the "living water" Christ gives; to grow in the know-Jedge of God? All agree that this is a secular age. This secular mind began before the war.
All statesmen are seeking a remedy for the world's distress. Where is it to be found? The only remedy is for the world to return to the spiritual outlook, to have the spiritual mind. If we are wrong and out of gear with God we are bound to be wrong in everything, and in all depart-7 ments of life. Surface motives will never save us. Mankind must "Hear the bubbling of the aspirin That feed the world.
And we Christian people believe that we have those springs. There was one, nay is one, who said to woman at a well, "Whosoever thought; spiritual life is an drinketh of this water shall thirst "activity" towards God, towards again; but whosoever drinketh of eternal and unseen things, towards the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shal] be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." I believe that all the dissatisfaction of the present day is a sign that man
he -needs to go back to Jesus he is dying of thirst; that Christ, who brings 'News from the inner court of things' from God who "is our home," who gave His Son to bring this news to us, that the soul can be redeemed from sin, the eye clean-_ sed, that we can seo eternal things and grow in his grace. In Him, Son of God and Son of Man, we not only "hear the bubbling of the springs that feed the world" but awe can drink of them, and have life eternal, and the world can drink, and be delivered from all: ts miseries.
Revrer's Peking correspondent reports that the Judicial Commission entrusted with the task of preparing China's case regarding the abolition of extraterritoriality recommends that the Government send missions of investigation to the various centres concerned.
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